# πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί #266 - Flix: Leveraging data to scale operations Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/datagen-3403537/266-flix-leveraging-data-to-scale-operations Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/datagen-3403537/266-flix-leveraging-data-to-scale-operations.md Podcast: [DataGen](https://stenobird.com/podcast/datagen-3403537) Published: 2026-04-22T12:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/data-gen/episodes/7-flix-leveraging-data-to-scale-operations Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5fa58959e64011214fbf140d/e/69e1f1a00b4baf3bf2285c99/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/datagen-3403537/episodes/266-flix-leveraging-data-to-scale-operations Duration seconds: 1617 ## Resource Manoj Raghavan is a Staff Data Strategist at Flix, the affordable travel tech scaleup based in Germany, solving technology for long-distance buses and trains. Flix operates in 40+ countries, has 5,000 employees, including around 100 data & AI experts. We cover : πŸ”₯ Their data organisation: decentralized and with no central data leadership πŸ”₯ One of the main projects he worked on to improve customer experience: bus partner classification πŸ”₯ Their stack: AWS, Snowflake, dbt, Power BI… πŸ”₯ One of their main current challenges: build vs. buy when it comes to AI tools πŸ“š RESOURCES - Manoj’s LinkedIn profile - The book of book Chip Huyen Designing Machine Learning Systems - The book of book Chip Huyen AI Engineering 🎬 CHAPTERS 00:00 What is Flix? 02:38 Manoj's journey 06:28 The Data team organization 10:43 One of his main projects 16:35 Their stack 19:02 Their main challenges 21:17 Their next step 23:40 Resources he recommends 24:42 His career advice 🀩 OTHER EPISODES YOU SHOULD LOVE #6 - HelloFresh: Building and scaling a Product Analytics culture #5 - N26: Building and scaling the Data team for Marketing #1 - BlaBlaCar : Managing 50 Data People with Manu, VP Data πŸ‘‹ MORE DATA CONTENT? 1/ Follow me on LinkedIn here  πŸ€³ 2/ Sign up for the newsletter (summaries, events) here  πŸ’Œ 3/ Check out the podcast in video format on YouTube here  πŸ“Ή πŸŽ™ SUPPORT THE PODCAST FOR FREE 1/ Subscribe πŸ”” 2/ Leave a 5 stars review on Apple Podcasts here πŸ₯° HΓ©bergΓ© par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/datagen-3403537/episodes/266-flix-leveraging-data-to-scale-operations/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/datagen-3403537/266-flix-leveraging-data-to-scale-operations.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.